Category: Research
Hydrogel Overlayer on Metal Scaffold (HOMeS)
We demonstrate that evaporative texturing provides significant cooling performance improvement only when thermal coupling to the interface is preserved.
Collective bubble behavior in boiling
Understand and control collective bubble behavior to explore boiling physics and improve nucleation reliability
Bubble-free water electrolysis
Design and optimize a bubble-free capillarity-driven flow cell for electrolysis. Investigate the effect of utilizing various electrodes and membranes with different geometries and materials
Controlled vapor sorption and smart water release
Hygroscopic metal organic framework (MOF)-based materials are promising for energy-efficient cooling and water harvesting.
Simulation of evaporation into microchannels
Evaporation plays a critical role in energy transfer processes. Evaporation physics are often much simplified for designing of real systems, but the applicability of these simplifications to small-scale flows is unclear.
Passive radiative cooling
Develop durable, weather-resistant passive radiative cooling panel, delivering silent, maintenance‑free cooling that slashes HVAC loads, lowers operating costs, and shrinks your carbon footprint.
Probing contamination in microscale porous evaporator
Investigate accumulation of impurities non-invasively with advanced metrology and spectroscopy
Traditionally Nonwetting Surface Made to Wet Mercury
We present a surface-engineering approach that turns all liquids highly wetting, including ultra-high surface tension fluids such as mercury.
Transport-based modeling of nucleation on electrodes
Prior works generally focused on the thermodynamics of bubble nucleation on electrodes and we consider the coupling between surface geometries and different forms of transport in the electrolytes.
Evaporation Kinetics Demonstrated Through Ultrathin Nanoporous Membranes
Elucidate kinetically limited evaporation where the molecular gas dynamics close to the liquid-vapor interface dominate the overall transport